petronia

16:50 today: a primer on copyright #
16:58 www.deathbycopyright.ca/index.php?/archives/56-Michael-Snows-geese-sculpture-at-the-Eaton-Centre.html #
16:59 non-economic moral rights: Snow vs. Eaton Centre Ltd. (and Monty Python in the US) #
17:06 Bruce Lehman: tinyurl.com/5njskm #
17:11 Newton vs Diamond (the Beastie Boys): www.ivanhoffman.com/infringement2.html #
17:16 Fair dealing (Canada): CCH vs Law Society self-serve photocopier test case ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/cases/2004030401.php #
17:20 Commerciality test: does the remix hurt the market for the original? #
17:26 Bridgeport vs Dimension Films tinyurl.com/bqy4b3 #
17:40 BMG vs Doe (no lawsuits against uploaders in Canada) tinyurl.com/c64zgw #
18:46 fwiw prof's opinion is that auctioning fanfiction for charity is a legal non-issue #
18:47 at strictest it's non-commercial fair use / fair dealing, at broadest it's a new work altogether #
20:43 if the avg kid has played 10,000 hrs of video games before age 21, that makes us all world class gamers shifthappens.wikispaces.com/ #
20:49 my classmate went to Antarctica over the holidays (with the Prince of Monaco): okoshio.wordpress.com/ #